March for the Ocean!/Basic Income

Ralph welcomes back ocean conservationist David Helvarg, who talks about offshore oil drilling and June 9th’s March for the Ocean and Steven Shafarman, author of Basic Income Imperative: For Peace, Justice, Liberty and Personal Dignity.

“We know what the solutions are. We need to create the political constituency that can turn things around. And as you’re always emphasizing, Ralph, when people take their family to the beach, it’s not like they get in the water and go ‘I don’t mind if it’s polluted, because that at least means there’s less regulation.’”David Helvarg, executive director of Blue Frontier and organizer of The March For The Ocean

“Over the last few months I’ve had conversations with a number of members of Congress and they’re supporting this idea. Keith Ellison, the deputy chair of the Democratic Party has declared his support. A number of others, mostly progressive Democrats have said it’s at least an idea we should study seriously. Barack Obama even says it’s an idea we ought to be discussing.”Steven Shafarman, author of “Basic Income Imperative: For Peace, Justice, Liberty and Personal Dignity.”